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,JOHX II. SEALS, - Kititor and Proprietor.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1875.
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BRILLIANT NEW STORIES!
The following brilliant new stories, by some of the
moBt popular writers of the age, will soon commence in
these columns; and besides these, we have on hand a
great many short stories, which will appear in turn:
JS&- THE DirOliCEB WIFE; 'K-x
— OR,
A Woman’s Devotion.
BY MRS. MARY E. BRYAN.
FLAT BOAT, RIVER AND RIFLE;
—OB,
Collie Carson’s Lovers.
BY M. QUAD, OF THE MICHIGAN PRESS.
B ELLER IVE.
BY NETTIE NEAX.
Heart of Marble and Xerves of Steel.
BY RUTH FAIRFAX.
BEARIXG AXOTHER’S BI RDEX;
OR,
The Husband’s Voir.
The
SOB BY GAMIX;
OB,
Story of a Xeir York Xews Boy.
IIOIV IT CAME TO PASS.
Secure the opening chapters, as it is impossible
for us to supply back numbers.
Mrs. L. R. Messenger.—We are glad to know
tliat this excellent lady and brilliant Southern
poetess sold in this city a goodly number of her
beautiful volume entitled “Threads of Fate.”
A fresh installment has just been received, and
copies may be had of Phillips & Crew, J. W.
Burke A Co., or at this office.
“Has The Sunny South (lone Up J”—The
delay last week, caused by our paper manufac
turers getting behind with our orders, brought
countless letters and cards of inquiries to this
office, and many of them asked the above ques
tion. We now answer it in the affirmative by
saying yes, The Sunny South has indeed “gone
up,” but not in a burst or explosion as -the in
quiry contemplated, but literally and emphati
cally gone up, in the plain meaning of the term.
It has gone up to the very front rank in Ameri
can journalism and the very highest notch in the
affections of the Southern people. It has gone
up in style and literary merit; in beauty and
mechanical excellence; in wealth and stability;
and if there is a single envious soul in all the
land who would like to hear of its collapse and
failure, we are prepared to assure him that he
will not be gratified. It has already passed suc
cessfully through the narrows without hurt from
Scylla or Charybdis, and is now out on an open
sea, with plenty of sail and the most propitious
breezes. Thanks to our glorious Southern peo
ple—their good words, enthusiastic apprecia
tion and liberal support have long since re
moved all fears, if any ever existed, as to the
future of the enterprise. Delays may’ sometimes
occur with everything earthly, but The Sunny
South will not fail to shed its lustrous beams in
the hearts and homes of our people. Our paper-
men were alone responsible for the delay in
sending out the last issue, and we have consulted
eminent counsel about bringing suit against them
for damages.
That Conundrum and Bonnet.—Answers to
Dr. Low’s egg conundrum continue to come to
this office from all directions, and the Doctor is
completely trumped. He had no idea that there
was a woman in the land who could answer it,
as he had never heard a man do it, and his as
tonishment at the smart and sensible solutions
that have come to hand may be more easily im
agined than described. He only expresses him
self in such forcible exclamations as“Umph!”
“Well, well!” “Bless my life !” “To be sure!”
“ My goodness !” “Did you ever !”
Many correct answers have come in since our
last, and we are of course at a greater loss than
ever to decide the vexed question One sweet
little girl from Augusta thinks all who answered
correctly should have a bonnet; but a most excel
lent and sensible lady thus writes from Macon:
“In regard to the conundrum, I don’t think
we ought to expect the gentleman to give us all
a bonnet. That is more than he bargained for;
and he could hardly afford it these hard times,
unless he happens to have a plenty of money,
and some to spare to those who have hardly
earned it. At the same time, I don’t think it
would be fair to let the decision rest upon the
solution of another conundrum, for tuk> reasons.
One is, all that was required has been done, and
it would not be right or fair to place it upon
any other contingency; therefore, it _ would be
unsatisfactory. The other is—very probably,
more answers than one would again be received,
and then he would be placed in a second dilem
ma; and though all might again have an equal
chance, those who failed would consider that
they had failed to get what was justly their due.
“Feelingthat I have a right to express an opin
ion, I would say that—as none of us would care
to have a chip of that bonnet—I think it would
be the best plan (if the bonnet has been pur
chased, any milliner, I think, under the circum
stances, would be willing to take it back) to take
whatever amount the bonnet would cost and
purchase a book for each one, of his own selec
tion, or a small chromo mounted, but not
framed, which could easily be sent by mail, and
which could be kept, not fbr its value, but as a
memento of the little feat by which it was ob
tained.
“ I would probably stand as good a chance to
solve or answer another conundrum as the rest,
and will willingly do so whenever he chooses to
propound it, without any expectation of further ,
remuneration. I think it very probable that the •
majority of the ladies who sent correct answers
will agree with me in the disposition I propose
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Insane.—No one who
lias a heart can but feel sad at the announcement
that the widow of the late assassinated President
has been adjudged insane and confined in a hos
pital at Batavia, jn Illinois. The case is a pecu
liar one. and must touch a sympathetic chord in
every bosom. Kings have often been assassin
ated, but their consorts have survived the catas
trophes, with no permanent injury to their men
tal organism—for the reason, perhaps, that such
tragedies are always anticipated, for “ uneasy
lies the head that wears a crown.” But in the
case of Mrs. Lincoln, it was different. No Pres
ident before him had ever been harmed or threat
ened with the assassin's blade; and though he
reigned in perilous times, the dark days were
just giving way to the dawnings of peace and
national tranquillity. It was a time of rejoicing,
and if her mind had ever been disturbed by
apprehensions of evil to her kind and amiable
lord, those feelings had been dissipated by the
general and universal rejoicing throughout the
victorious North.
We have no doubt it was a happy pair. So far
as the public ever knew, she was a faithful, mod
est and dutiful wife, while his exhaustless humor
and imperturbable spirit made him, doubtless,
a most companionable husband; and their hap
piness at that fatal moment must have been su
preme. They were the central figures of the
nation, and millions of enthusiastic admirers
were read3' to bow down and glorify them. All
the happiness ever experienced by any human
creature must have thrilled the bosom of Mrs.
Lincoln on that brilliant but fatal evening. She
could but feel a new admiration for her honored
Abraham, who was then the idol of the North,
while visions of joys unutterable frescoed the
future with gorgeous beauty.
But the ways of Providence are past finding
out, and “he who standeth should take heed
lest he fall.” Under such circumstances, the
shock could not be otherwise than fatal. The
blow that sent death to the heart of her husband
inflicted also a mortal wound in her own mental
being. From that night she began to hear strange
noises in the walls, and became the victim, in
imagination, of direful plots and schemes of
poisoning. All her dreams were haunted by
horrid ghosts reeking with blood, and the gut
tural groans of a dying husband were ever
sounding in her ears. Sound and refreshing
sleep never again, perhaps, visited her, but in
its stead troubled dreams and a feverish wake
fulness. Who can but sympathize with her?
Thrown, in the twinkling of an eye, from the very
pinnacle of earthly happiness into the depths
and terrors of a ray less and hopeless misery!
Who could stand such a shock ? It were too se
vere for even Roman nerve or Stoical stolidity,
to say nothing of the tender organism of a
female, and no wonder she pines to-day in a re
pulsive hospital for the insane. Poor woman ! We
can but sympathize with her. Whatever may
have been the political errors of her husband,
she, like the beautiful and affectionate Carlotta,
deserves the sympathy of the nation.
But, in our*judgment, the blow that made
Mrs. Lincoln a widow was also an unfortunate
one for the South. Filled as Mr. Lincoln was
with the milk of human kindness, and occupy
ing a position of unrestricted influence with the
dominant party, he would no doubt have averted
man3’ of those terrible wrongs which have since
been heaped upon us. His generous nature
would never have allowed him to give them the
sanction of his official approval, and his veto
would have carried power and influence among
the rank and file of the blood-thirsty fanatics of
the North. His successor possessed power with
no party, but stood solitary and alone amid a
surging whirlpool of reckless fanaticism, which
threatened the very existence of the republic.
The memory of the dead Lincoln, then, can
not diminish our sympathy for his now insane
widow.
Biographical Sketch of (Jot. Jenkins.—We
have already in hand our engraving of this emi
nent Georgian, but the sketch not being ready
from a want of time, we cannot present him till
our next issue. Colonel Cineinjflifus Peeples,
so familiar with national politics, and a warm
personal friend of the distinguished ex-Gover-
nor, is preparing the sketch, and it will be
deeply interesting to ever}" Southerner, and es
pecially so to Georgians. Governor Jenkins is
a great and good man. and no one is so well
qualified to write a biography of his life as the
distinguished gentleman who has undertaken it.
Our engraving of him is the best, if possible,
we have yet presented in “Our Gallery.”
PERSONALS.
“Philemon Perch.”—This signature will be
recognized by many Georgians as the nom de
plume of one of the most cultivated and schol
arly men of the South. He is a native Georgian,
and formerly filled some of the most honorable
positions in the literary institutions of this State,
but is now a citizen of Baltimore. The story of
“Poor Mr. White,” as told by Philemon, in this
issue, is deeply interesting.
Writers Unknown to Fame.—We have been
astonished and delighted at the great amount of
hitherto undiscovered and undeveloped talent in
the South. Here and there all over our South
land we find brilliant minds, male and female,
of which the world has never heard, and which,
for the want of opportunity, might never have
made themselves known. But the genial rays of
The Sunny South have warmed them into new
intellectual life, and we are now training up
whole hosts for literary distinction. To all of
them we say, persevere. Crowns of immortality
await many of them in the wide fields of litera
ture.
to make of the bonnet,
S. A. S.’
Kissing in Chinn.—What a strange fascination
there is in that labial process called kissing. It
seems that those who never heard of it very soon
learn to love it, as is the case with the Chinese
maidens.
“It is a singular fact that the custom is alto
gether unknown in that country. The Chinese,
indeed, have no word or term expressing love as
we understand the tender passion. An Ameri
can navy officer voyaging Chinawards narrates
an amusing experience of the Chinese maidens
on kissing. Wishing to complete a conquest he
had made of a young mie jim (beautiful lady,) he
invited her—using the English words—to give
him a kiss. Finding her comprehension of his
request somewhat obscure, he suited the action
to the word and took a delicious kiss. The girl
ran away into another room, thoroughly alarmed,
exclaiming,—‘Terrible man-eater! I shall be
devoured.’ But in a moment, finding herself
uninjured by the salute, she returned to his side
saying, ‘I would like to learn more of your
strange rite,—Ke-e-es me !’ He knew it wasn’t
right, but he kept on instructing her of ‘ Ke-e-es
me' until she knew how to do it like a native
American girl; and, after all that, she suggested
another course bv remarking, ‘ Ke-e-es me some
more seem jim Mee-lee-kee ?’ (Anglo—American)
and the lesson went on until her mamma’s voice character of a city depend on the intelligence,
Waiting Till the River Dries.— Throughout
the South may be found hundreds of people
with no occupation, no money and no energy,
but with an abiding hope, it would seem, that
something will surely turn up for their especial
benefit. They may be aptly compared with the
fellow standing on the river bank waiting for the
stream to run dry that he might walk over.
Surely there never were so many people wait
ing for something to turn up, or seeking soft
places with large pay. And can we ever hope for
j prosperity while such is the case? Can a country
flourish where the consumers exceed the pro-
t ducers? It is certainly impossible unless the
producers can distribute a very large overplus.
Somebody else is alarmed on this point, and
says “it is painful to the industrious and moral
portion of our people to see so many loungers
about the streets, and such a multitude whose
i highest aspirations seem to be to waste their
time in idleness or at base-ball, billiards, etc. ;
No person need be unemployed who is not
over-fastidious about the occupation. There are
too many soft hands (and heads) waiting for
light work and heavy pay. Better work for half
a loaf than beg or steal a whole one. Mother
earth is always near by, and ready to respond to j
reasonable drafts on her never-failing treasury. 1
A patch of potatoes raised ‘ on shares’ is prefer
able to a poulticed pate earned in a whisky scrim
mage. Some modern Micawbers stand with
folded hands waiting for the panic to pass, as
the foolish man waiting for the river to run dry
and allow him to walk over. The soil is the
foundation of American prosperity. When mul
titudes of our consumers become producers;
when fashion teaches economy instead of ex
pending for a gaudy dress what would comfort
ably clothe a family; when people learn to walk
until they can afford to ride; when the poor man
ceases to expend more for tobacco than for
bread; when those who complain of panics learn
that ‘we cannot eat cake and keep it;’ that a
sieve cannot hold water; that we must rely upon
our own exertions and earn before we spend,
then will panics cease and prosperity return.
While we should by no means unreasonably re
strict healthy recreation, we should remember
that ‘time is money;’ that idleness leads to im
moral habits, and that the peace, prosperity and
rudely awakened them from their most delicious
dream.”
integrity, industry and frugality of its inhabi
tants. ”
The Prince of Wales’ trip to India will cost
SI, 250,000.
Major-General Phil. Sheridan will be married
this spring.
Leading English literateurs propose erecting
a memorial tablet over Byron’s grave.
John G. Saxe will read a poem at the sunrise
decoration of Farragut’s grave on May 30.
We were pleased to welcome into our sanctum
Mr. O. D. Shearer, of the Vicksburg Herald.
Brick Pomeroy is at Avon, in the upper part
of New York trying the waters for rheumatism.
Darwin’s income is $20,000 a year—the result
of long, labored efforts to prove man’s descent
from monkeys.
We hope the indefatigable and earnest Colonel
S. K. Johnson will be made superintendent of
the Georgia Railroad.
Mrs. Eberhart, of Elbert county, hung herself
in the smoke-house last Sunday while the rest
of the family were at church.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Richardson starts
from Washington on Wednesday for a trip
around the world. He needs rest.
Rev. Dr. Carroll, a prominent Protestant cler
gyman of Brooklyn, has a lecture entitled,
“From the Blarney Stone to Vesuvia.”
Rev. Dr. DeAVitt Talmage’s Tabernacle, in
Brooklyn, now has the largest church member
ship of any Presbyterian church in America.
Ida Greeley was married to Colonel Smith, of
Leavenworth, Kansas, in New York, on May
first. Father Farrell performed the ceremony.
On May 13th the patriot heart and eloquent
tongue of Henry Grattan, “the equal and supe
rior of Demosthenes,” had been still fifty-five
years.
Dr. Lipscomb has decided to accept the pro
fessorship in the A’anderbilt University at Nash
ville, recently tendered him by the trustees of
that institution.
The ex-Empress Eugenie expects to remain at
Chiselhurst until she dies, or the French people
get in a suicidal mood once more and put her
son on the throne.
General Braxton Bragg has accepted the posi
tion of chief engineer of the Gulf, Colorado and
Sante Fe Railway, for which ground was broken
on May first at Galveston.
Tom Campbell, the Scotch poet, who wrote
j several beautifui Irish poems, will, it seems,
j have the monument proposed for him, though it
1 was a hard job to get the money.
Hon. Jeff Davis entreated the Texas veterans
of the Mexican war recently to be as loyal now
to the stars and stripes as they were zealous
! and brave in defense of their first flag.
The French writer, Edmund About, says that
I in the coming great struggle, “Bismarck and
his Krupp guns” will be on one side, and on the
other the “ conscience and liberty of the human
| race.”
General McRae declined the tempting call to
the superintendency of the Georgia Railroad,
with a salary of $8,000 per annum. His great
executive ability as a railroad officer puts him in
great demand.
On the anniversary of the eighty-third birthday
of Pope Pins IX., he received congratulatory
messages from all directions, and a deputation
of German Catholics presented him with an ad
dress bearing a million signatures.
This is from the Madrid Grange: “His Maj-
! esty the King (whom God preserve) and Her
| Royal Highness, the Infanta Donna Isabel, con-
| tinue in this court, without novelty in their im-
! portant health. ” The scribe meant to say that
Alfonso and the other party were well.
: Edward C. Marshall, son of Chief Justice Mar
shall, seventy years of age, is a clerk in the pen-
J sion office at $1,200 salary. Mr. Marshall re-
! sides in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, lost all
his property during the war, is delicate in health
and resembles his father.
The Washington Star says there seems to be
no doubt that Secretary Fish has indicated to the
President his desire to retire from the cabinet
at the close of the present fiscal year (June 30).
Is is supposed that Edward Pierrepont, the re-
: cently appointed Attorney General, will succeed
him.
An old Unitarian minister, Rev. Mr. Thatcher,
of Wareliam, Mass., becoming infirm and blind,
resigned. His parish came together and refused
to accept the resignation. They said, “You
gave us your youth and your strength, and we
will stand by you now that you are old and
blind.”
Mr. John AV. Sedgwick, a AVashington gen
tleman, has bequeathed $10,000 to Miss Belle
i Sherman, of St. George’s county, Maryland,
in recognition of assistance rendered by her
several years ago on the occasion of a severe fall
of the testator from a horse, from the effects of
which he lay for some time unconscious.
Ann Eliza, the seventeenth Mrs. Brigham
: Young, has come to grief. Chief Justice Lowe
has practically reversed the decision of his pre
decessor, Keene, which awarded her $500 per
month alimony. The new judge decided that
as there had been no legal marriage, there could
be no legal divorce, and hence no alimony.
It is said that during the thirteen years that
Oliver Charlick, who lately died in New York
city, was president of the Long Island Railroad,
he never drew any part of his salary, though it
had been fixed by the Board of Directors at $10,-
000 a year. This makes $130,000, which his es
tate will, of course, call upon the company to
pay up.
AVeare delighted to know that the stockhold
ers of the Georgia Railroad manifested their ap
preciation of the long and faithful services of j in
the Hon. John P. King so highly that they
would not let him out, notwithstanding his ex
pressed determination to retire. But for his
wishes in the matter, he would have received,
perhaps, almost the entire vote. AVould it be
the Georgia Railroad without him? He is a
glorious and self-sacrificing old Roman.
Miss Anna Semmes, daughter of Admirral Ra
phael Semmes, was married last week, at Mo
bile, to Mr. C. B. Bryan, of Alemphis, by Bishop
Quinlan, of the Catholic ehurch. A reception
was held from 12:30 to 4 p. m. Suspended from
one side of the hall to the other was the magnif
icent Confederate flag, of the costliest material
and most exquisitely embroidered, which was
made and presented to Admiral Semmes by the
ladies of London while commanding the Ala
bama,
taken.
PARAGRAPHIC.
Joe Jefferson is going to Europe with Hip in
July.
The Texan-Mexican border troubles hare been
pacificated.
Albani is renewing her old triumphs in Lon
don, so the papers say.
Aimee is said to have aspirations towards En-
glish Opera and the rivalry of Kellogg.
A’erdi’s Requiem Mass is to be produced in
England under the composer’s own direction.
The income of the New A’ork Herald last year
! was $1,700,000, of which $000,000 went to J. G.
Bennett.
Governor Kellogg, of Louisana, has vetoed
the bill making all State scrip receivable for
State taxes.
An International Convention will be held at
Nancy on the second of July, to discuss the his
tory of America before it was discovered.
They wondered at the short collections in a
Chicago church, and it was found that the col
lector had shoe-makers’ wax in the bottom of his
hat.
The butter crop of the United States now ex
ceeds the wheat crop in value. It’ll be a luxury
to have a little bread with our butter one of
these days.
Cinuinnatus will be honored at Cincinnati by
a granite tower one hundred and sixty feet high.
It will be erected by a citizen at a cost of fifty
thousand dollars.
“Time softens all things,” except the young
man who parts his hair in the middle and whis
tles on the street cars. Nothing can make him
any softer than he is.
The mint of Paris is well supplied with gold
and silver, more largely than for some time past;
and it is now coining four millions of dollars in
four-dollar gold pieces.
A country paper informs its readers that
“when a gentleman and lady are walking in the
street, the lady should walk inside of the gentle
man.” How the lady is to do it is not stated.
The following curious epitaph was placed in
French upon a tomb-stone in Pere Lachaise this
week: “Sleep in peace, my good aunt; thy
painful arterial rheumatism will pain thee no
more.”
A party of Sioux Indians stole a patent ice
cream freezer, supposing it to be a hand-organ,
and their “big medicine-man” turned the crank
a week before he would confess his inability to
get music out of it.
Two widows have sued E. B. Batchelder, of
AVest Randolph, Vt., who didn’t keep his prom
ise to marry them. One demands $5,000 and the
other $10,000. Batch, will doubtless get off very
cheaply, whichever way the cases go.
A country paper tells this story of a new boy
in one of the Sunday schools: “The precious
youth was asked who made the beautiful hills
about them, and replied that he did not know, as
his parents only moved into town the day before. ”
The whisky fraud investigations show that in
St. Louis alone the revenues have been defrauded
to the extent of $1,000,000, and there is evidence
that from the first of January to the first of April
three thousand barrels of untaxed spirits have
been placed upon the market by St. Louis dis
tillers.
The women of a Colorado town got up a suf
frage meeting the other day, no men being ad
mitted. No business of importance was trans
acted, however, because some invisible miscre
ant let down a live rat through the skylight, and
amid shrieks and screams the assemblage sud
denly adjourned.
The big clock and bell which will strike the
dinner-hour from the belfry of Independence
Hall, July 4,1876, cost $20,000, and are inscribed
with the words: “Presented to the City of Phil
adelphia for the Belfry of Independence Hall,
in the names of Adam and Mariah Sarah Sey-
bert, and Caroline, their daughter, by their son
and brother, Henry Seybert. ”
A writer in a late number of one of our mag
azines argues that the Atlantic ocean is gradu
ally drying up. This will be pleasant news to
those people who want to go to Europe, but are
kept back by the fear of sea-sickness. In two
or three hundred thousand years, perhaps, they
can go over on dry land. And, by the way,
steamship companies had better be making prep
arations to put wagon wheels on their vessels.
“Ish dere some ledder here for me?” inquired
a German at the general delivery window of the
Detroit post-office one day recently. “No, none
here,” was the reply. “Veil, dot ish queer,”
he continued, getting his head into the window.
“My neighbor gets somedimes dree letters in
one day, und I get none. I bays more daxes as
he does, und I haf never got one letter yet. How
comes dose dings?”
The Philadelphia North American says “money
is in such abundance in the banks "and fiscal
institutions, and in the hands of all engaged in
discounting, that the demand is far below the
offerings. Money for loanable purposes is, in
fact, a drug in consequence of the total absence
of enterprise. Much as has been said heretofore
on the subject, the surplus, which is greater than
ever, shows that the expected recovery of busi
ness activity has not yet set in. ”
It is said that when a Spaniard eats fruit, he
always plants the seed thereof for the benefit of
posterity. As a result, no country is so bounti
fully blessed with fruit as Spain. The Mayor of
Topeka, Kansas, appears to be imbued with a
similar unselfishness. One afternoon last week,
at his request, all business was suspended in
the town, and the whole population went to work
and planted in the town about one thousand
shade-trees of several varieties.
A vagabond in Cincinnati decided to get drunk
and go straightway from intoxication into eter
nity. He bought a pint of whisky and went
to a druggist’s for some arsenic. The druggist
suspected a suicidal intent, and sold him a harm
less powder. The vagabond mixed the whisky
and the powder, drank the compound, and sank
into insensibility, believing he would awaken in
the other world. His dissatisfaction on becom
ing conscious in a police station was intense.
Pleasure Trips.
As the summer advances with its sultry and
sickening heat, many of our readers are* com
pelled to seek comfort and health in the moun
tains of Arirginia and the North; and with this
object in view, they will of course desire to select
the best route, and one that can offer the best in
ducements and most comforts. The writer hav-
_ traveled over that popular and well-known
route, the Atlantic Coast Line, can heartily en
dorse it as the route. AVe learn that excursion
tickets to all the prominent pleasure resorts of
the North and the famous A’irginia springs will
be on sale at this point as well as all the princi
pal cities of the South. Colonel Pope, that live
and energetic general passenger and ticket
agent, who is wide awake to the wants and com
forts of the traveling public, will have his sum
mer schedule and tickets arranged so as to suit
the most fastidious traveler. Joseph AV. AVhite,
the passenger agent of the line, who makes his
headquarters in Atlanta, takes pleasure in an
swering letters and giving any information the
traveler may desire. It will be well to write to
either Colonel A. Pope, general ticket agent,
Wilmington, North Carolina, or to Joseph AV.
Beneath this the marriage vows were AA'hite, passenger agent, Atlanta, Georgia, before <
selecting your route.